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Project Update April 2024 AfricaAIPPAsiaBiodiversity monitoringCHIRAPAQCIPDPCommunity-led conservationCountryFPPGTANWICCSIINIMPECTInternational processesKenyaLand and resource rightsLMMalaysiaPartnersPASDPeruPhilippinesPIKPRegionReportSustainable livelihoodsThailandThe AmericasThemesTraditional and local knowledgeTypeUNEP-WCMC
11.04.24

Project Update April 2024

This Project Update, published in April 2024, brings together updates from the Transformative Pathways partners on their key activities and work undertaken since the start of the project in 2022.   Capacity building sessions on biodiversity monitoring have been a key part of the first phase…
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Introduction to community-based environmental monitoring AfricaAsiaBiodiversity monitoringCommunity-led conservationFPPICCSLand and resource rightsPartnersRegionReportThe AmericasThemesTraditional and local knowledgeType
03.04.24

Introduction to community-based environmental monitoring

Practical guidance for monitoring of natural resources by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. This guide is for the local organisations working with communities (e.g. community-based organisations and local non-governmental organisations), which are facilitating Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) to design and implement…
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Indigenous-Led Reforestation Efforts in Peru’s Andes and Amazon Regions ArticleBiodiversity monitoringCHIRAPAQCommunity-led conservationCountryLand and resource rightsPartnersPeruRegionThe AmericasThemesType
03.04.24

Indigenous-Led Reforestation Efforts in Peru’s Andes and Amazon Regions

In February 2024, members of the indigenous Quechua communities of Cayara and Hualla in Ayacucho, in alliance with the municipalities of these districts and the Regional Department of Agriculture of Ayacucho, carried out an important reforestation work during the rainy season in the Andes. In…
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Indigenous Conservation Advocates from Ayacucho and Pasco Input into Peru’s Updated Biodiversity Strategy 2050 ArticleBiodiversity monitoringCHIRAPAQCommunity-led conservationCountryLand and resource rightsPartnersPeruRegionThe AmericasThemesType
03.04.24

Indigenous Conservation Advocates from Ayacucho and Pasco Input into Peru’s Updated Biodiversity Strategy 2050

In February 2024, 14 indigenous conservation advocates from the regions of Ayacucho and Pasco in Peru participated in the updating of the National Biodiversity Strategy 2050, contributing with their knowledge and experience to strengthen indigenous peoples’ initiatives in the protection of biological diversity and territorial…
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Second Transformative Pathways In-Person Meeting: Annual Planning and Review AfricaAIPPAsiaBiodiversity monitoringCHIRAPAQCIPDPCommunity-led conservationCountryFPPGTANWICCSIINIMPECTInternational processesKenyaLand and resource rightsLMMalaysiaPartnersPASDPeruPhilippinesPIKPRegionSustainable livelihoodsThailandThe AmericasThemesTraditional and local knowledgeTypeUNEP-WCMCVideo
02.04.24

Second Transformative Pathways In-Person Meeting: Annual Planning and Review

In February 2024, twelve project partners of the Transformative Pathways consortium gathered for the second in-person planning and review meeting at Laboot, Chepkitale in Kenya. The meeting hosted nearly 80 participants, including representatives of all organisations, and local community members of the Ogiek of Mt…
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Community Video: Release of Aquatic Turtles in the Kankiam Basin, Morona, territory of Wampis Nation Biodiversity monitoringCommunity-led conservationCountryGTANWPartnersPeruRegionSustainable livelihoodsThe AmericasThemesTypeVideo
02.04.24

Community Video: Release of Aquatic Turtles in the Kankiam Basin, Morona, territory of Wampis Nation

In 2023, during the first phase of the aquatic turtle repopulation component of the Pathways project, four communities of the Kankaim (Morona) river basin have released a total of 3291 hatchlings of two species - Taricaya and Charapa - into the Kankaim oxbow lakes. Watch…
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Sunset over Wampis village of Soledad, Peru. Credit Vicki Brown, FPP
Executive Summary: Baseline study of the legal framework of land rights and ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities in Peru Community-led conservationCountryLand and resource rightsPeruRegionReportSustainable livelihoodsThe AmericasTraditional and local knowledgeType
13.12.23

Executive Summary: Baseline study of the legal framework of land rights and ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities in Peru

This study examines the recognition of the land rights and ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities in Peru. It systematically analyses the relevant national and sub-national legal framework, judicial and administrative decisions, relevant public policies and interviews with representatives of indigenous peoples’ organisations.…
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Crias de taricaya y charapa en artesas CC.NN. Puerto Juan
Wampís to release aquatic turtles in the Kankaim Basin, Morona Biodiversity monitoringCommunity-led conservationCountryGTANWPartnersPeruPress ReleaseRegionSustainable livelihoodsThe AmericasThemesType
04.12.23

Wampís to release aquatic turtles in the Kankaim Basin, Morona

The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW), through the management groups of the San Juan, Puerto Juan, Sánchez Cerro, and San Francisco de Chiwaza communities in the Morona District, Datem del Marañón Province, will be releasing 3,205 hatchlings of Yellow-spotted river turtles “Taricaya”…
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Wampis woman planting taricaya eggs, in the Puerto Juan Indigenous Community.
Recovering aquatic turtles in the Kankaim Basin, Morona ArticleBiodiversity monitoringCommunity-led conservationGTANWPeruSustainable livelihoodsThe AmericasUncategorised
01.09.23

Recovering aquatic turtles in the Kankaim Basin, Morona

The taricaya and the charapa are the two most important species of aquatic turtles due to the contribution of their eggs and meat in the diet of the local population, as well as a source of economic income from the commercialisation of these natural products.…
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Processes promoted in the family ArticleCHIRAPAQCommunity-led conservationCountryPartnersPeruSustainable livelihoodsThe AmericasTraditional and local knowledge
01.09.23

Processes promoted in the family

In June 2022, we began the implementation of the Transformative Pathways project, which works to support Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to lead and scale up conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. These actions will also serve to conserve and protect the natural environments where…
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